Word: tree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...command post on the wrecked beachhead, the Marines' Major General Julian Smith proposed a dual ceremony. Up a coconut palm, stripped of fronds by shellfire, rose the Stars & Stripes. Simultaneously, up an adjacent tree, soared the Union Jack...
...evident that the Jap list of killed and wounded would be longer than the American. That was no consolation to the leathernecks who had seen their mates fall. But there was satisfaction in mopping up the snipers. One gang of 50 Marines fired rifles and carbines into one coconut tree at a trapped Jap. He returned the fire after he had been hit at least 50 times...
Natural shellac is produced in much the same way as beeswax. It is a resin secreted by insects called Laccifer lacca. After feeding on the sap of certain cultivated Oriental trees, the insects coat the tree twigs with an exudation called "lac" (from the Sanskrit word laksha, meaning 100,000, referring to the thousands of insects in a colony). Indian natives scrape the lac off the twigs, heat it in cloth bags, strain off the melted shellac. The final product is a flaky substance that dissolves readily in alcohol and, when spread on a surface, dries quickly to a hard...
Harvard's Dramatic Club will hit the boards again this winter, after a long summer layoff. With the cooperation of V-12 authorities, the Club will produce a series of one-acters for Unit, and may give a full-scale production if it can get the necessary manpower. Big Tree, the swimming pool clubhouse behind the Grant Study will be open again Thursday, as H. D.ers greet stage-struck civilian and V-12 candidates with beer and cokes...
Last July big, bearded, 35-year-old War Correspondent John Thompson (Chicago Tribune) parachuted out of a night sky into Sicily, landed in an olive tree, twisted a knee, cracked...